Defence Business Services (DBS) DevOps Engineer

Ministry of Defence

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Details

Reference number

361066

Salary

£35,290

per annum (pro rata)

A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Job grade

Higher Executive Officer

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

MOD - Head Office & Corporate Services - Armed Forces & Veterans Services (AFVS)

Type of role

Digital

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

Number of jobs available

1

Contents

• Location
• About the job
• Benefits
• Things you need to know
• Apply and further information

Location

Gosport - Centurion Building Centurion Building Grange Road Gosport Hampshire

About the job

Job summary

Are you a dedicated person who is passionate about making a difference?

Would you like to work for the Ministry of Defence? 

Defence Business Services (DBS) is one of the largest shared service organisations in Europe that provides a wide range of corporate services, to over 1.2 million end users, including serving and past military and families, as well as MoD civil servants and industry. DBS delivers large scale administration and smaller specialist services to enable the wider MOD to focus on its core aims, maintaining the UK’s Defence and Security. Services include Human Resources, Pay, Veterans, Finance and Procurement.

•    Our Vision - To support UK defence customers with outstanding service every time.

•    Our Mission – Together we will proudly support Defence, continuously improving and delivering flexible, timely, sustainable and value for money services that underpin the whole force and enhance operational capability. 

DBS is committed to creating a great place to work for all our colleagues. We are building an inclusive culture and respectful environment that reflects the diversity of the society. 

We want to maximise the potential of everyone who chooses to work for us through opportunities to develop your skills and experience. We also offer a range of flexible working patterns and support to make a fulfilling career accessible to you and offer a Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%. Where your role permits, we support a blended working approach alternatively known as hybrid working.

Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working.  This is a non-contractual arrangement where all office-based employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in office, subject to capacity and any required workplace adjustments.  Requirements to attend other locations for official business, or work in another MOD office, will also count towards this level of attendance. Applicants can request further information regarding how this may work in their team from the Vacancy Holder (see advert for contact details). Defence Business Services cannot respond to any questions about working arrangements.  

Come and join the DBS community today! 

Job description

What do the Armed Forces & Veterans Services (AF&VS) Team do?

This Team work with delivery partners to provide a range of trusted and efficient services to both service personnel and Veterans' communities. For current serving members of the Armed Forces this includes:  

• Personnel support processes;
• Pay, Pensions & Allowances;
• The Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre; and,
• The MOD Medals Office.

For service Veterans and their dependants we provide support by administering the Armed Forces Pension Schemes, compensation payments for those injured or bereaved through service, and providing a package of welfare for Veterans. We also provide information and support to service leavers and their families as they leave the Armed Forces and transition to civilian life.

We also manage the Ilford Park nursing home for Polish Veterans and their families.

As a DevOps Engineer you’ll be a key member of the DevOps team and work closely with our commercial partner to ensure that data holdings are maintained and managed in accordance with their contractual obligations. Supporting the production service, investigating incidents and problems, and providing analysis and resolution as part of a resolver team, we’ll also expect you to:

• transform technical requirements into DevOps processes
• build complex stories without additional support
• manage live test environments
• identify and resolve issues that are preventing delivery

Availability & Capacity Management:

• manage service components to ensure they meet business needs and performance targets

Development Process Optimisation:

• explain the importance of developing process efficiency and the common ways in which processes are optimised
• support specific activities to improve development processes
• spot or identify obvious deficiencies

Information Security:

• understand information security
• design solutions and services with security controls embedded, specifically engineered with mitigation of security threats

Modern Standards Approach:

• explain the most important principles of a modern standards approach and how they apply to the work you are undertaking
• apply these principles under guidance

Programming and build (software engineering):

• collaborate with others when necessary to review specifications
• use the agreed specifications to design, code, test and document programs or scripts of medium-to-high complexity, using the right standards and tools

Prototyping:

• approach prototyping as a team 
• establish design patterns and iterate them
• use a variety of prototyping methods and choose the most appropriate

Service Support:

• identify, locate and fix faults

Systems Design:

• translate logical designs into physical designs
• produce detailed designs
• effectively document all work using required standards, methods and tools, including prototyping tools where appropriate
• design systems characterised by managed levels of risk, manageable business and technical complexity, and meaningful impact
• work with well understood technology and identify appropriate patterns

Systems integration:

• build and test simple interfaces between systems
• work on more complex integration as part of a wider team

User Focus:

• identify and engage with users or stakeholders to collate user needs evidence
• understand and define research that fits user needs
• use quantitative and qualitative data about users to turn user focus into outcomes

This role level iperformed at the Civil Service job grade of:HEO (Higher Executive Officer) 

Person specification

To be a success in this role you’ll be an intellectually agile, proactive and self-motivated team player. A superb communicator with excellent problem-solving skills, you’ll have the ability to present data modelling and business data usage in a format that is understandable to both your DevOps colleagues and a non-technical audience.

An understanding of data storage and archival mechanisms and technology – including major relational database management systems – would be desirable, as would knowledge of the Oracle Enterprise Business Suite including the HR and payroll modules.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Working Together
• Changing and Improving

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Government Digital and Data Profession capability Framework DevOps Engineer